Cabitza, Veronica Serena https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0003-4733
Capponi, Pier Cesare https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3826-8849
Brusa, Irene https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1959-4692
Vincenzi, Fabrizio https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5027-1699
Pasquini, Silvia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9442-1428
Varani, Katia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4562-1348
Urso, Luca https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3007-3898
Uccelli, Licia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1490-0718
Funding for this research was provided by:
Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Article History
Received: 5 November 2025
Accepted: 15 February 2026
First Online: 10 March 2026
Declarations
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: Open access funding was provided by Università degli Studi di Ferrara within the CRUI-CARE Agreement.
: Veronica Serena Cabitza, Pier Cesare Capponi, Irene Brusa, Fabrizio Vincenzi, Silvia Pasquini, Katia Varani, and Licia Uccelli have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article. Luca Urso is an Editorial Board member of Molecular Diagnosis and Therapy . Luca Urso was not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript, nor any of the subsequent editorial decisions.
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: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study
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: VSC and PCC equally contributed at the present article. Conceptualization and writing first draft: VSC, PCC, and IB; editing and revision: SP, FV, KV, LuUr, and LiUc. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.